ABOUT

I’m a pas­sion­ate and accom­plished award-win­ning Art Direc­tor with mar­ket­ing agency expe­ri­ence. I have a diverse back­ground serv­ing some of the world’s top brands in both print and dig­i­tal adver­tis­ing. Whether it’s tack­ling a demand­ing work­load or col­lab­o­rat­ing with oth­er cre­ative team mem­bers, I’m always eager to apply my detail-ori­ent­ed eye and unique per­spec­tive to inno­vate and dri­ve results.

EXPERIENCE

Ver­ti­cals: Health­care, Finan­cial Ser­vices, Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics, Auto­mo­tive, Skin­care, Home Improve­ment, Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, Edu­ca­tion, Office Solu­tions, Hos­pi­tal­i­ty, Tech, Retail  

Respon­si­bil­i­ties: Con­cept devel­op­ment and design exe­cu­tions, man­ag­ing design­ers, pre­sent­ing work inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly, work­ing with exter­nal ven­dors and col­lab­o­rat­ing with team mem­bers, coor­di­nat­ing with the print pro­duc­tion team, direct­ing pho­to shoots

Projects: Direct mail mar­ket­ing cam­paigns, email mar­ket­ing, web­sites, land­ing pages, ban­ner ads, brand iden­ti­ty, social media mar­ket­ing, in-house mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als, print ads, brochures, post­cards, self-mail­ers, dimen­sion­al mail­ers, bill­boards, pitch cre­ative, and pre­sen­ta­tions

Posi­tions held:

Harte Han­ks 
Senior Art Direc­tor
Ben­salem, PA — Octo­ber 2010 — March 2025

Accom­plish­ments:
• Pro­mot­ed to Senior Art Direc­tor
• Man­aged and men­tored a team of 3 design­ers, enrich­ing my lead­er­ship skills
• Won 2 Her­mes (Plat­inum) awards
• Led art direc­tion for 5 years for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebras­ka, which saw a 239% con­ver­sion increase in year 1 for annu­al enroll­ment peri­od cam­paign, at a sub­stan­tial­ly low­er acqui­si­tion cost
• Sup­port­ed the Sony Elec­tron­ics account as an Art Direc­tor for 12 years, which grew to a $2.5 mil­lion client, gen­er­at­ing 20% data­base growth and 386,000 leads per year
• Cre­at­ed 300+ digital/print cus­tomer com­mu­ni­ca­tions annu­al­ly as a core mem­ber of the Bank of America/Merrill Invest­ments mar­ket­ing team

Bank of Amer­i­ca (ECS) 
Art Direc­tor
Wilm­ing­ton, DE — April 2010 — Sep­tem­ber 2010

Accom­plish­ments:
• Designed and art direct­ed projects with­in the Home Loans team while gain­ing valu­able insight into the process­es and oper­a­tions of a vast finan­cial cre­ative agency

Merkle Inc. (for­mer­ly CFM Direct) 
Senior Art Direc­tor
King of Prus­sia, PA — July 2005 — Jan­u­ary 2010

Accom­plish­ments:
• Pro­mot­ed to Senior Art Direc­tor
• Won 3 “Ben­ny” awards
• Spear­head­ed com­pa­ny-wide rebrand­ing effort (includ­ed logo/website/photography/collateral)

EDUCATION

Penn­syl­va­nia Col­lege of Art & Design
Lan­cast­er, PA
Major: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Arts

CLIENTS

Sony, Bank of Amer­i­ca, Mer­rill, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Cap­i­tal One, Cer­aVe, Her­shey, Home Depot, GE, Pro­gres­sive, Her­shey, Nation­wide, DirecTV, Union Bank, Vol­vo, Volk­swa­gen, Mer­ck, Pfiz­er, Abbott, Ikon, Pirch, Cit­i­zens Bank, Nex­tel, Leno­vo

 
AWARDS

Ben­ny Best of Show
Ikon Dimen­sion­al Mail­er
Nex­tel Dimen­sion­al Mail­er

Her­mes — Plat­inum
Sony Hol­i­day Cat­a­log
Sony Sky­fall Tie-in Direct Mail

Ben­ny Best of Cat­e­go­ry
Volk­swa­gen Launch Mail­er
Cor­po­rate Express DM

SKILLS

Atten­tion to detail
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion & col­lab­o­ra­tion
Con­cept & brand devel­op­ment
Lead­er­ship
Print & dig­i­tal design
Adobe: Pho­to­shop, InDe­sign
Illus­tra­tor, After Effects, Acro­bat
Microsoft: Out­look, Pow­er­point,
Teams, Word, Excel
Fig­ma
Motion graph­ics